Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On 2/1/07, Roger Mills <rfmilly@...> wrote:
> > mAr\k dJeI r\i:d r\oUt --
>
> I hope you don't *really* pronouce "J" like that. It looks quite
> difficult! :)
Oops. Lapsus digiti.
> > doUntjuwVnd@r\st&ndjEt -- In Ostr\eIlj@n O5 bEts @r\ Of ;-)))))
>
> You pronounce "off" with the same vowel as "all"?
'Deed I do. I do not have the cot/caught merger. There was a chance, way
back in 1941, that I might have grown up in California...but apparently my
father couldn't find a job there. Ow well, je ne regrette rien.
I thought that was
> something only old people with broad Australian or Cockney accents
> did. I suppose in America, most bets are "orf" too.
How about old US middlewesterners too. :-))))